George Stephens (philologist)
George Stephens (13 December 1813 – 9 August 1895) was an English archeologist and philologist, who worked in Scandinavia, especially on interpreting runic inscriptions.[1]
Born at
doctor honoris causa.[2]
His brother was the Methodist minister Joseph Rayner Stephens.[3] He died at Copenhagen in 1895.[2] He was the grandfather of Florence Stephens.
Bibliography
- Conversational outlines of English grammar: intended as an easy introduction to that language... (1837)
- Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm (1847)
- Revenge, or Woman's Love: a melodrama in five acts (1857) (Eric the Victorious is one of the protagonists)
- The rescue of Robert Burns, February 1759 (1859)
- Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay (1860)
- The Old-Northern runic monuments of Scandinavia and England, 4 volumes (1866–1901)
- Old Norse fairy tales (1882)
- The runes: whence came they (1894)
References
- ^ Andrew Wawn (2004). "Stephens, George (1813–1895)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ a b "Georg Stephens", Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, 1906
- Thomas Frederick Tout(ed.). The Chartist Movement. Manchester: University of Manchester. p. 88.
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